Photomontage

Last week we attended around three lessons of photomontage with Matt our technical of editing. Photomontage is an essential part of editing for the film industry, as it is the manipulation of more images done to create a new one.

The process it self can be seen as complicated but if you manage you self with Photoshop, the job become a lot quicker and easier.

Photoshop is a professional software used for the editing of images, in this case it is mainly used for the digipack process, and all the online pictures used for online website, social media and more.

The main thing to know if you are a beginner with Photoshop is to organisation, creation and blending of files three different steps that you will just need to get used to and repeat them several times. There are different sections in Photoshop that you need to click and automatically it will do the job for you.

 Photoshop as it is a professional software it gives more options (tools) for the same things, for example something you will find once starting the Photomontage process is the selecting tool, here it varies from people and their preferences.

I personally prefer the selecting tool W as it autocratically separate the different elements presented in a picture giving you the possibility to change the thickness of the brush.

The Lasso tool it’s the same function but it is more manual and it give only straight lines for a less precise result.

So the steps for photomontage are: Open a new file with the right resolution and size, a black page will appear this step is optional, then all the interested pictures needs to be open and automatically will appear.

You then select the interested part and drag them to the main picture that you want to montage that would do as base of your final work, you can either cut the not interested bit that will be covered in the original picture or leave and just cover them, you then need to blend than making the outline let strong and smoother within the picture.

You can then change the saturation to make the colour as realistic as possible, once you are satisfied with your final work, it’s best to blend all the different layers together, however once this step is done you can’t make any changes to the picture without affecting the whole picture.

Original Picture

My own version of it